Technology is Humanizing

Amber Chance says that in using technology "we're just increasing our human-ness and our ability to connect with one another" (We are all cyborgs now). This is hard for me. My natural disposition is to reject technology because I feel it distracts us from reality. However, Amber Chance's TED talk "We are all cyborgs now" may have found a crack in the wall I have built against technology. Maybe technology is actually the embodiment of our humanity. We have constructed it to digitally replicate our existence. Inside devices we have stored our thoughts (in notes and journals), our words (in texts and emails), and our actions (in photos and videos documenting our activities). It is the means we use to record our personal world and communicate it to others. It is different than any mode in the history of the world. Turns out technology has power to help increase our capacity to create relationships, retain memories, and develop self. The user dictates if this power will be used effectively or not. Like nearly all things, technology is what we make it.